Brigid Sweeney

BOSTON HOME: How does the term “landscape” apply to an urban area? SHAUNA GILLIES-SMITH: When people hear that word, they think of their backyard, or of the sweeping untouched lands that are the domain of SUV commercials. In reality, much…

Here’s the question: did Lekker create the South End, or did the South End create Lekker? Amsterdam native Natalie Carpenter says the area was already a “centrifuge of creativity” when she opened shop in early 2003; many others in the…

MADE OF ORGANIC bark, the neutral Caba Company wallpaper serves as a great backdrop for art. The paintings are by Bernd Haussmann, a Marblehead-based artist represented by the South End’s Chase Gallery. They hang slightly off-center “because it looks less…

FOUR YEARS AGO, Governor Deval Patrick made a campaign promise to grow Massachusetts’ creative economy. His logic was simple: good design catalyzes economic growth in every field. That’s because ideas succeed only when they’re wrapped in an attractive, easy-to-use package….

Renovations, like relationships, are a series of compromises—so it’s safe to say that Steve Naha and Vincenzo Scibelli are experts at meeting in the middle. Naha, chairman of a financial consulting firm, is compact and precise, with a dry wit;…

As Boston Home‘s art director, Susannah Haesche knows design. Now she’s moving to New York for a dream job at O magazine—and there are two things she’s dying to bring along. While browsing Newbury Street’s International Poster Gallery, Haesche fell…

The 17th-century “cabinet of curiosities”—a display case filled with outlandish knickknacks—has been revived everywhere from Pottery Barn to local boutiques. Gurari Collections owner Russ Gerard, however, can legitimately claim to have preceded the trend. A former dean at Rhode Island’s…